Dynamic relaxation is an intrinsic and universal feature of glasses and enables fluctuation
and dissipation to occur, which induces plentiful behaviour, maintains equilibrium, and …

When a system jams, it undergoes a transition from a flowing to a rigid state. Despite this
important change in the dynamics, the internal structure of the system remains disordered in …

The low-frequency vibrational and low-temperature thermal properties of amorphous solids
are markedly different from those of crystalline solids. This situation is counterintuitive …

This overview of energy landscapes will focus on some rigorous properties of potential
energy surfaces (PES's), especially the symmetry properties of steepest-descent paths, and …

This book gives a pedagogical introduction to the physics of amorphous solids and related
disordered condensed matter systems. Important concepts from statistical mechanics such …

Unusual features of the vibrational density of states D (ω) of glasses allow one to rationalize
their peculiar low-temperature properties. Simulational studies of D (ω) have been restricted …

Theoretical concepts and experimental evidence of heterogeneity in glass-forming liquids
and polymers are reviewed. The main purpose is to provide an introduction to theoretical …

Glassy solids exhibit a wide variety of generic thermomechanical properties, ranging from
universal anomalous specific heat at cryogenic temperatures to nonlinear plastic yielding …

Amorphous solids fall into any reasonable definition of a solid. This means that it should be
possible to describe amorphous solids in terms of an expansion in deviations from a well …

The physical properties of a topologically disordered amorphous material (glass), such as
heat capacity and thermal conductivity, are markedly different from those of its ordered …